Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

I've written several recent posts about the decline of math education.  It's usually not mathematics professors who want to dumb dow...

California's government can't boil water without burning it : California’s cannabis industry has faced huge economic hurdles in its ...

Nope: rewrite the lyrics to Don't Stop Believing using Shakespearean English "Cease Not Thy Belief" Verse 1: Just a small town...

A friend sent me a tweet today.  That tweet generated a lot of commentary on Twitter, and two of those comments sum up for me why I'm a ...

This time I gave it this prompt:  write a 200-word blog post on why learning styles and multiple intellegences are bunk.  The result: The Co...

I get that many people support abortion and are not happy with the Dobbs decision, but how can anyone truly support this ? The Minnesota sta...

The prompt I gave it was:  write a 500-word blog post about math education in the style of rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com Here's what ...

Seems to me a simpler method would be to make the standards exceedingly clear beforehand, and refuse entry to those who do not comply: An A...

Early on in my tenure at my current school, I had a student in Algebra 2 one year and in pre-calculus the next.  He earned A's in both c...

Good for Amazon and Whole Foods : A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Whole Foods by three former employees who alleged ...

I truly don't understand how people can think this way : It’s understandable that most parents would want to know if their child was und...

What is it about lefties and their obsession with bathrooms?  Don't they have anything more important to think about than trying to conv...

Right On The Left Coast is an adult now. The first post is here .

Math used to be immune to this silliness , maybe the 'rona vaccinations weakened us: An education professor delivered a lecture in early...

Those shutdowns caused a lot of harm : In hopes of containing the pandemic, everyone across the country was forced to suffer through lockdo...

As a conservationist, I like the idea of recycling; why waste something?  Unfortunately, as even National Geographic points out, the fantas...

I'm posting this just so it's easy to find this link , and to remind everyone that the Heritage Foundation's Election Fraud Data...

Project Veritas strikes again : Critics are outraged after shocking video surfaced of Ohio school officials discussing how they can push cr...

I'm not one of those people who pretends to require people or organizations to solve every single large problem before they tackle any ...

Going over the previous day's homework assignment in Financial Math, we came across a problem that went something like this:  A shop cha...